Thus Prate the Pundit » copyright http://pundit.ca Ideas and the Internet, Josh Chalifour Minding the Current Thu, 17 May 2012 21:56:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Rip Movie http://pundit.ca/2009/03/17/rip-movie/ http://pundit.ca/2009/03/17/rip-movie/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:02:04 +0000 Joshua Chalifour http://www.pundit.ca/?p=105 . . . Continue →]]> Just saw the film, Rip, last weekend. The movie explores most of the present day struggles with copyright and notions of ownership of “intellectual property.” I thought it was interesting in how it presented a US government decision in the 90s (through interviews with those responsible) to definitively shift its economy from a manufacturing oriented one, to a more pure idea trade, in which ideas are property and treated like something like physical goods.

The point seemed to be that the US would make a deal with other countries, leaving manufacturing to them but idea production to the US.

It managed to present the issues in a passionate way that, I imagine, should capture the imaginations of many people who otherwise wouldn’t care about copyright issues at all.

“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this website, helping to create the world’s first open source documentary.”

Filmmaker Brett Gaylor encourages remixes of the film too.

]]> http://pundit.ca/2009/03/17/rip-movie/feed/ 0 Copyright Reform and the Stats Can Report http://pundit.ca/2007/11/12/copyright-reform-and-the-stats-can-report/ http://pundit.ca/2007/11/12/copyright-reform-and-the-stats-can-report/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:39:35 +0000 Joshua Chalifour http://www.pundit.ca/ip-pretension/copyright-reform-and-the-stats-can-report/ . . . Continue →]]> Michael Geist posted about the politics in the debate on copyright reform. The point stems from dissonance between the recent Statistics Canada report and a reform-oriented bill expected to introduce more restrictive copyright policy. The report showed some nice Canadian recording industry profits where similar industries in other parts of the world seemed to be declining. It also showed that Canadian artists were selling more. Geist says

“With opposition likely to come from broadcasters, education groups, consumers, privacy commissioners, and the technology community, copyright could emerge as an issue where the Liberals and Conservatives sing a different tune.”

Which I think would be great. I recently wrote about how “intellectual property” issues should be brought into mainstream political discourse.

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